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Mark Rutland 4fcd6e1416 Docs: arm64: booting: clarify boot requirements
There are a few points in the arm64 booting document which are unclear
(such as the initial state of secondary CPUs), and/or have not been
documented (PSCI is a supported mechanism for booting secondary CPUs).

This patch amends the arm64 boot document to better express the
(existing) requirements, and to describe PSCI as a supported booting
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Fu Wei <tekkamanninja@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-10-24 15:47:20 +01:00
Mark Salter 4d5e0b1527 Documentation/arm64: clarify requirements for DTB placement
The current description of DTB placement requirements does not quite
match the kernel code in head.S: __vet_fdt and __create_page_tables.
This patch tweaks the text to match the actual requirements placed on
it by the code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-09-05 17:29:05 +01:00
Roy Franz 4370eec05a arm64: Expand arm64 image header
Expand the arm64 image header to allow for co-existance with
PE/COFF header required by the EFI stub.  The PE/COFF format
requires the "MZ" header to be at offset 0, and the offset
to the PE/COFF header to be at offset 0x3c.  The image
header is expanded to allow 2 instructions at the beginning
to accommodate a benign intruction at offset 0 that includes
the "MZ" header, a magic number, and the offset to the PE/COFF
header.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2013-08-22 11:45:04 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 9703d9d7f7 arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation
The patch adds the kernel booting and the initial setup code.
Documentation/arm64/booting.txt describes the booting protocol on the
AArch64 Linux kernel. This is subject to change following the work on
boot standardisation, ACPI.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2012-09-17 10:24:45 +01:00